..We analyze age-structured harvest records from black bears in Pennsylvania to illustrate how incorporating misclassification errors leads to changes in point estimates and provides a measure of precision...

..Because age-at-harvest data are often readily obtained, we argue that this type of analysis provides a valuable strategy for wildlife population monitoring...

Integrated population modeling of black bears in Minnesota: implications for monitoring and management

John R FiebergDepartment of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 5:e12114. 2010

..g., age and sex) are often readily available. Increasingly, integrated population models are used for natural resource management because they synthesize various relevant data into a single analysis...

..Our analysis produced marginal improvement in precision, due to relatively few recoveries, but we demonstrate how precision could be further improved with increases in the probability that a retrieved tag is reported...